France's government collapsed Wednesday after Prime Minister Michel Barnier was forced out in a no-confidence vote in Parliament, reigniting a summertime political crisis for the country as it ...

After just three months in office, Barnier will now go down in history as the shortest-serving prime minister since the Fifth Republic, the system of government in France from 1958.

France’s veteran European Union ambassador was nearly fired before Christmas but got a last-minute stay of execution when the man who wanted to oust him, former Prime Minister Michel Barnier, lost his ...